Title: ExpirePress – Automatic Post Scheduler for WordPress
Author: wpsqr
Published: <strong>September 19, 2024</strong>
Last modified: January 21, 2026

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# ExpirePress – Automatic Post Scheduler for WordPress

 By [wpsqr](https://profiles.wordpress.org/wpsqr/)

[Download](https://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/expirepress.1.0.4.zip)

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## Description

ExpirePress is a lightweight yet powerful **WordPress post scheduler** designed 
to automate content management through smart expiration actions. With ExpirePress,
you can **automatically expire posts** and control exactly what happens to your 
content at a scheduled date and time.

Perfect for blogs, news websites, business sites, and eCommerce stores, ExpirePress
helps you keep your website clean, relevant, and up to date — without manual intervention.

You can **auto expire posts** and apply content actions such as changing post status,
updating titles, modifying categories, or hiding content from search and sitemaps.

### Key Fatures

**Flexible ExpirePress Actions**
 – Set post status to **Draft**, **Trash**, **Delete
Permanently**, or **Private** – **Password-protect** or unprotect posts – **Change
post categories** – **Update post titles** – **Hide posts from XML sitemaps** – **
Exclude posts from site search results**

**Post Scheduling & Automation**
 – Schedule expiration by **date and time** – Automate
content lifecycle management – Ideal for temporary, seasonal, or time-limited content

**User-Friendly Interface**
 – Configure expiration settings directly from the **
post editor** – No complex setup or configuration required

**Supports Multiple Post Types**
 – Works with standard posts – Fully compatible
with **custom post types**

**Reliable & Compatible**
 – Lightweight and performance-friendly – Tested with 
modern WordPress versions (6.6+) – Compatible with Gutenberg and common plugins

### Customization & Developer Hooks

ExpirePress is built with developers in mind and provides **custom hooks and filters**
for extending functionality.

You can:
 – **Add or remove expiration actions** – **Register custom expiration 
behaviors** – **Control how new actions are saved** – **Modify expiration logic 
programmatically**

Hooks are available for:
 – Registering new expiration actions – Handling data saving
when a custom action is added – Extending existing expiration workflows

This makes ExpirePress easy to integrate into custom projects, advanced workflows,
or third-party plugins.

**Full developer documentation is available at:**
 https://www.wp-sqr.com/

### Common Use Cases

 * Automatically expire outdated blog posts
 * Manage seasonal or promotional content
 * Clean up expired announcements or offers
 * Control visibility of old content without deleting it
 * Automate content workflows in WordPress

ExpirePress gives you full control over **post scheduling, auto expiration, and 
content automation** — all in one simple plugin.

### Troubleshooting

 1. Ensure the ExpirePress plugin is activated and your WordPress version is at least
    5.2.
 2. Deactivate other plugins to check for conflicts.

## Screenshots

 * [[
 * **Dashboard Overview**
 * [[
 * **Expiration Settings**
 * [[
 * **ExpirePress Actions**

## Installation

 1. Upload the `expirepress` folder to the `/wp-content/plugins/` directory.
 2. Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ menu in WordPress.
 3. Configure your expiration settings in the Post Editor Page.

## FAQ

### Can I set different expiration actions for different post types?

Yes, ExpirePress supports custom post types and allows you to set specific actions
for each post type.

### Is there documentation available?

Yes, you can find detailed documentation on our website at [ExpirePress Documentation](https://www.wp-sqr.com/).

## Reviews

There are no reviews for this plugin.

## Contributors & Developers

“ExpirePress – Automatic Post Scheduler for WordPress” is open source software. 
The following people have contributed to this plugin.

Contributors

 *   [ wpsqr ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/wpsqr/)

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### Interested in development?

[Browse the code](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/expirepress/), check
out the [SVN repository](https://plugins.svn.wordpress.org/expirepress/), or subscribe
to the [development log](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/expirepress/) by
[RSS](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/expirepress/?limit=100&mode=stop_on_copy&format=rss).

## Changelog

#### 1.0.4

 * Performance improvements
 * Compatibility updates

#### 1.0.3

 * Minor improvements, bug fixes, and compatibility updates.

#### 1.0.2

 * Resolved conflict with ACF and Gutenberg.

#### 1.0.0

 * Initial release

## Meta

 *  Version **1.0.4**
 *  Last updated **2 months ago**
 *  Active installations **20+**
 *  WordPress version ** 5.2 or higher **
 *  Tested up to **6.9.4**
 *  PHP version ** 7.2 or higher **
 *  Language
 * [English (US)](https://wordpress.org/plugins/expirepress/)
 * Tags
 * [auto expire](https://test.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/auto-expire/)[automation](https://test.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/automation/)
   [content management](https://test.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/content-management/)
   [post scheduler](https://test.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/post-scheduler/)
 *  [Advanced View](https://test.wordpress.org/plugins/expirepress/advanced/)

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## Contributors

 *   [ wpsqr ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/wpsqr/)

## Support

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